Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2014
Raped and Escaped: A Colombian Mother’s Fight to Protect her Sons, Melanie Bencosme
Evolution And Ethics, Franklin Roy Bennett
Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970, Jeremy Paul Benson
Dominican Gaga Music and Dance: The Remaking of a Spiritual Performance in the City of New York, Marimer Berberena
Clinical Implications of Binaural Interference: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Michael Bergen
A Comparison of Vocabulary Learning From Joint Reading of Narrative and Informational Books With Dual Language Learner Children, Deborah Bergman Deitcher
Applying Psychopharmacology To Two Characters in Shakespeare, Chanan Berkovits
Bureaupathology and Organizational Fraud Prevention: Case Studies of Fraud Hotlines, Chelsea Ann Binns
Ain't No Love in New York City, Jason Bisnoff
Conflicts of Soviet Ideology in Sergei Prokofiev's Film Score for Ivan the Terrible, Elizabeth R. Blaufox
Straight Record and The Paper Trail: From Depression Reporters to Foreign Correspondents, Magdalena Bogacka-Rode
Candida Albicans Als5p Amyloid In Host-Microbe Interactions: A Ceanorhabditis Elegans Study, Michael Bois
Message Passing Techniques For Statistical Physics And Optimization In Complex Systems, Lin Bo
The Interchange of Plain Velar and Aspirate in Kronos/Chronos: A Case for Etymological Equivalence, Roberto Peter Bongiovanni
Manuel de la Cruz Gonzalez: Transnationalism and the Development of Modern Art in Costa Rica, Lauran Bonilla-Merchav
Methodological advancements for improving performance and generating ensemble ecological niche models, Robert Boria
A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind, Anton Borst
The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Savings and Investment, Andrew A. Bossie
The Relationship of Nursing Career Perception Congruence and Perceived Social Support on Hispanic Middle School Female Nursing Career Choice, Karen Vicino Bourgeois
Ecology of Terrorism: Cross-National Comparison of Terrorist Attacks, Katharine A. Boyd
Coda, James Boyle
The Long-Term Effects of Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Combined with Complex Decongestive Therapy (CDT) in the Treatment of Breast Cancer Lymphedema: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study, Olivia Bramlett, Igor Daysudov, Toshi Odaira, and Bethany Rodriguez
The Influence of Pseudo-relatives on Attachment Preferences in Spanish, David Branco-Moreno
The Neurodevelopment Of Basic Sensory Processing And Integration In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alice Brown Brandwein
Two-way street: A parent-child approach to learning could close the nation's inequality gap, Rebecca Bratek
The Black Vigilance Movement in Nineteenth Century New York City, Jamila Shabazz Brathwaite
For Right and Might: The Militarization of the Cold War and the Remaking of American Democracy, Michael Brenes
Between sites: Critical convergences at the personal, interpersonal, and institutional levels in a service learning course, Kendra Rashaun Brewster
Historical Relationships between Land Elevation and Socioeconomic Status in New York City: A Mixed Methods GIS Approach, Jennifer Brisbane
Comparing NMES Stimulation Intensity at Various Lengths of the Tibialis Anterior, Brent Brookbush, Maya Hakami, Jennifer Wolff, and Amy Zelin
Financial Reporting Differences and Debt Contracting, Anna B. Brown
Collective Memory, Women's Identity and the Church, Jo Ana Elise Brown
Rebranding Religion, Parker Brown
Dans les collines de jardins de Pierres Sacrées In the Hills of Gardens of Sacred Stones, William Apollo Brown
Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855-1888, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer
Our Bodies Moving North, Jamie Lynn Bruce
Racial Gap in Income, Wealth and Asset Allocation Between Ethnic Groups in America, Herby Brutus
Elysium, Darren Bulhak
Iron Tower, Laura Bult
The Vastness of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits of the Artist as a Child Enclosed, Matthew John Burgess
Educative Metafiction; The Interplay of Learning, Literacy and Language in Shakespearean Drama and Modern Metafiction, Stacie Burrough
The New Deal in Puerto Rico: Public Works, Public Health, and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1935-1955, Geoff G. Burrows
The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959, Rachel Burstein
Property Enhancements of Dielectric Nanoparticles via Surface Functionalization, Andrew Byro
Characterization of wide band gap semiconductors and multiferroic materials, Bo Cai
Dynamics and Manipulation of Nanomagnets, Liufei Cai
Transformative Science Education Through Action Research And Self-Study Practices, Olga Calderon
A Parent at War and the "Invisible Wounds" They Carry Home: PTSD in Military Veterans and a Review of Psychosocial Family System Challenges, Melina Sofia Calle
The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism, Ethan Campbell
"If She Can Do It, So Can I": An Ethnography of a Supportive Living Environment for Women in the Criminal Justice System and their Children, Regina Cardaci
Child Development Theory as a Mediator of Novice Teachers' Ethnotheories to Increase Learning and Justice in the Classroom, Nancy Michele Cardwell
The Place is Prologue, Natalie Caro
Structure and Function in Bacteriophage Phi6, James Carpino
From the BX to a BA: Latino Male Students and the Transition from High School to College, Alejandro Eduardo Carrion
Musical Offerings Trading as Conversation in Jazz, Matthew Carter
The Effects of School Autonomy on Students' Reading Achievement in Early Grades: A Dose-Response Treatment Approach, Esther Ferreira dos Santos Carvalhaes
Temporal Information Extraction and Knowledge Base Population, Taylor Cassidy
A Phylogeographic study of two neotropical bird species, the Red-Headed Manakin (Pipna rubrocapilla) and the White-crowned Manakin (Dixiphia pipra)., Ivandy Castro-Astor
Technological Mediations in Collective Fantasy: Exploring Gameplay, Initiation and Technology in LARP, Gary Catano
Sharps, Squares, and Scalpers: Gambling in the Urban Underground, AnneMarie Cesario
The Status of Languages in Post-Independent Morocco: Moroccan National Policies and Spanish Cultural Action, Khalid Chahhou
National Child Maltreatment Response and Foster Care Entries: 2005-2010, Zeinab Chahine
Committee Decision Making in Monetary Policy, Hyungju Cha
Writing Fanny's Room & Reading Emma's House Jane Austen's Spatial Construction of a Subjective, Social Self, Brent Chamberlain
The Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East; Obstacles to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, Michael Chance
A Role of Yeast Adhesin Amyloids in Force-Dependent Adhesion and Biofilm Formation, Cho Xiao Juan Chan
Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian, Lionel Chan
Randomized Search of Graphs in Log Space and Probabilistic Computation, Wen-Ju Cheng
Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Fluids and at Interfaces, Weikang Chen
Second quantum state transition in GaAs/AlGaAs resonant Bragg structure probed by modulation reflectance spectroscopy, Yuechao Chen
Re-Considering Female Sexual Desire: Internalized Representations Of Parental Relationships And Sexual Self-Concept In Women With Inhibited And Heightened Sexual Desire, Eugenia Cherkasskaya
Changing gender: Gender role, class and the experience of Chinese female immigrants, Doris Cheung
The Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court and the Impact of the Initiating Entities, Magret Chingono
Bicultural Social Identity: Do Biculturals Assess Workplace Deviance Differently Across Different Ethnicities?, Andy Y. Chiou
The Life of a Moral and Radical Crusader, Anugya Chitransh
Falls Prevention Training at New York Presbyterian Hospital: Does Education Regarding Fall Prevention Reduce Incidence of Falls after Discharge to Home from an Acute Rehabilitation Facility?, Yuning Chiu, Michelle Frager, Hyunseok Lee, and Solange Wong
"No Letter, No William": A Reassessment Of The Life and Work of Dorothy Wordsworth, Neena Cinquino
Motor Imagery and Action Observation as an Alternative Gait Training Intervention for the Elderly, Matthew F. Cirelli, Brian Fettner, Lindita Ismaili, and Danielle Jordan
The Conceptual Worlds of Milton and Goethe, Jonathan Clayton
Exile and Ethnography; Jacques Roumain and the Problem of Place in Haitian National Thought; 1927-1944, Joshua Clough
The Performance of Dancers on the Lower Quadrant Y Balance Test, Heather Cole, Jinny McGivern, Anna Morejon, and Tiffany Sudol
The Bronx: Creating Fashion Identity through Race, Class, Hip-Hop Culture and J.Lo, Milesska Jordana Contreras-Hernandez
Gravity Modeling of Casinos in the United States: A Case Study of Philadelphia, Moira Conway
Understanding Workplace Reciprocity of Emergency Nurses: A Qualitative Study, Christine M. Corcoran
Seniorpreneurs: the new aspect of retirement, Valentina Cordero
Mythopoeia: A Biography, David Corliss
Fatboy Sessions, Graham Corrigan
Yang-Mills Theories as Deformations of Massive Integrable Models, Axel Cortes Cubero
The Inner Workings of Text Summarization Systems, Hope Cotton
Suburban Heat Islands: The Influence Of Residential Minimum Lot Size Zoning On Surface Heat Islands In Somerset County, New Jersey, Jennifer Renee Cox
The Sound Patterns Of Camuno: Description And Explanation In Evolutionary Phonology, Michela Cresci
Assessing Satellite Image Data Fusion with Information Theory Metrics, James Cross
Happiness is a black gun, Terence Cullen
The Role of Water in the Rise, Prominence, and Decline of Nabataean Petra, Dennis Cummins
(Remember) The Future: The Preemptive Governance of Memory in the Age of Mass Catastrophe, Kimberly J. Cunningham